Focus-related Operations at the Right Edge in Spanish; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Chapter€1. Introduction; 1. Why study information structure; 2. The goals of the present monograph and methodological considerations; 2.1 A brief note on the methodology; 3. Data set and background on focalization in Spanish; 4. A brief look at the framework and the questions that arise in the study of focus; 5. Detailed description of the contents of each chapter; 5.1 Chapter€2: An overview of the syntax of focus in Spanish
5.2 Chapter€3: The syntax of corrective focus at the right edge5.3 Chapter€4: Rightward movement under ellipsis; Chapter€2. An overview of the syntax of focus in Spanish; 1. Neutral focus and sentential stress; 2. New information focus; 3. On the properties of focus fronting; 3.1 A note on other closely related fronting processes; 3.2 The relevance of focus fronting for syntactic theory; 3.3 Previous approaches to focus fronting in Spanish; 3.3.1 Obligatory subject-verb inversion and the properties of Spec-TP under focus fronting; 4. On the EPP in Spanish
4.1 Bever's (2008) analysis of the EPP4.2 Technical implementation of the EPP; 4.3 Previous proposals on subject-oriented EPP in Spanish; 4.4 Subjects vs. topics; 4.5 Evidence in favor of null expletives; 4.5.1 On the nullness of null expletives ; 4.5.2 Do null expletives have an effect on the output?; 5. Focus fronting revisited: On the EPP in marked contexts in Spanish; 5.1 An excursus on Chomsky's (2013) proposal on the EPP and labeling; 5.1.1 The Empty Category Principle under Chomsky's (2013) proposal on the EPP and labeling; 5.2 Interim conclusion
6. Other syntactic contexts: Focus at the right edge, in the canonical position and within islands6.1 Focused subjects at the right edge; 6.1.1 Some results and consequences of the current approach to focus at the right edge; 6.2 Focus in the canonical position; 6.3 Focus within islands; 7. Conclusion; Chapter€3. The syntax of corrective focus at the right edge ; 1. Previous approaches to focalization processes at the right edge; 2. The data; 3. The origin of the subject at the right edge; 3.1 The licensing of subject NPIs at the right edge
3.2 The c-command domain and locality properties of the object in the V1 V2-INF O2 S1 order3.3 The V1 V2-INF S1 O2 order; 3.3.1 Derivational alternatives for the V1 V2-INF S1 O2 order; 3.3.2 A note on the V1 V2-INF S1 O2 order and phases; 4. The height of the subject in the structure; 4.1 Parasitic gaps; 4.2 The scope of negation; 5. Evidence that these are contrastively focused subjects; 6. Alternative analyses; 6.1 Alternatives where the syntax of the presupposed constituents is complex; 6.2 Alternatives where the syntax or the PF of subject is complex
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Ph. D. University of Maryland, College Park 2008
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